Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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FARGARD II.
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flocks and herds and men, at their will and wish, as many as he wished.
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21 (42) · The Maker, Ahura Mazda, called together a meeting of the celestial Yazatas in the Airyana Vaego of high renown, by the Vanguhi Dâitya ?
The fair Yima, the good shepherd, called together a meeting of the best of the mortals, in the Airyana Vaêgô of high renown, by the Vanguhi Dâitya.
To that meeting came Ahura Mazda, in the Airyana Vaêgô of high renown, by the Vanguhi Dâitya; he came together with the celestial Yazatas.
To that meeting came the fair Yima, the good shepherd, in the Airyana Vaêgô of high renown, by the Vanguhi Daitya; he came together with the best of the mortals.
22 (46). And Ahura Mazda spake unto Yima, saying:
'O fair Yima, son of Vivanghat! Upon the material world the evil winters are about to fall, that shall bring the fierce, deadly frost; upon the material world the evil winters - are about to fall, that shall
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"§ 20 belongs to the Commentary. See FRAGMENTS to the Vendidad.
• See Farg. I, notes to $ 2.
* The best types of mankind, chosen to live in the Var during the Malkôsån and repeople the earth when the Var opens.
• The Commentary has here Malkosán, a word wrongly identified with the Hebrew Malaos, which designates the beneficent autum rains. Malkosân are the winters let loose by a demon or wizard named Malkos, in Zend Mahrkasha the death-causing' (see Westergaard's Fragments, VIII).
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